Description
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There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than
0.10.9, including:
・ The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop (CAN-2005-0006).
・ The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit
prematurely (CAN-2005-0007).
・ The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption (CAN-2005-0008).
・ The Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal
exit prematurely (CAN-2005-0009).
・ The MMSE dissector could free statically-allocated memory
(CAN-2005-0010).
・ The X11 dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow
(CAN-2005-0084).
Impact
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An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash
Ethereal, perform DoS by CPU and disk space utilization or even execute
arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which
could be the root user.
